Blackwell

In the scientific age, “The midwife must give place to the physician. . . Woman therefore must become physician.” Woman doctors would also rescue female patients from “unnatural and monstrous” need to confess intimate symptoms to men or, worse still, to serve as case studies for male medical students. . . . And even though she feared for the ‘moral purity’ of female patients both rich and poor, she laid no blame for this peril at the feet of her male colleagues, who had her ‘utmost confidence and respect.’ In aligning herself with the men, she implicated herself in their misogyny” (Nimura, 196-97).